The MLS Draft eligibility is really weird. Basically coaches and scouts vote on who they want in the draft.

So, yeah, I'd say their Academy programs have some interest or at least offered it to them.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on December 16, 2025, 12:25:25 PMAustin College named Dr. Rebecca Cantor, currently Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Spring Hill [AL] College, as their 17th president.  She will begin her term in July 2026; current president Steven O'Day will continue in the role until his retirement in May 2026.  Prior to her arrival at Spring Hill, Dr. Cantor was at Savannah School of Arts and Design, where she served as department chair, professor of English and Assistant Provost.  Dr. Cantor will also serve as Professor of English at Austin.

As she has never served at a school with a football program, it remains to be seen how her arrival will impact the 'Roo program, and 'Roo athletics in general. 

Springhill's athletics are very much a mixed bag. Women's Volleyball is pretty good, as are a couple other women's sports. The men's team sports aren't great. But nothing that would imply a lack of support, just nothing that implies the admin is going out of the way to prioritize them either.

My kid is doing middle-school wrestling this year for the first time. We are forced to use FloWrestling for every tournament. It's appallingly bad software with the least intuitive interface I've come across in a long time. For kicks and giggles, I signed up to be notified when my kid's ring was assigned and his match started. Tournament ended at 3 p.m. Saturday, after he wrestled 3x. I was never notified. 8 p.m. I was told he needed to report to his wring for his first match, the next one at 10:30 p.m., and the final was at 1 a.m. Sunday morning. None of these times were a simple 12 hours off either. It was just completely random.

None of the wrestling parents, who dealt with Flo before, have a single good word to say about it. The whole company is a steaming pile of garbage.

Well... W&L was doomed by what plagued them all year against good teams, an inability to put the ball in the net. They were consistent start to finish this year!

Good season boys. Congrats on the ODAC finals and tourney bid. Can't complain, they worked hard but were just a team with a killer flaw.

They don't care. They already have your money and it's all AI stuff cobbled together from the web.

Quote from: awadelewis on November 11, 2025, 09:23:29 PMThree years into Coach McCollum's tenure and no signs of improvement rubbed some people the wrong way.  A lot of us were expecting to see movement towards a 0.500 season this year.   Surprises me that our VC and AD were that quick at pulling the trigger, was not expecting the call to happen until after our last game this weekend.  I think we have talent on the field but it's difficult to overcome 50+ years of a lack of success on the field.

I mean, I get it. But Black got 3 years, Laurendine 5, Rundle 5, McCollum 3. Windham was the last one that was there for any amount of time, 10 years. I'm just surprised. At some point, Sewanee has to stop blaming the coaches. If they want a winning program, or at least not a losing one, they are going to have to do something on the admin side to support it. Other sports programs at Sewanee are quality programs. While football is always the outlier due to roster size, it still should be possible even in a conference with quality opponents like the SAA, to get to .500 at least some years.

This is a pattern. Three or four years, fire the coach. It's been going on for a while. Something else is the issue at this point. It can't just be the wrong coach over and over.

No, but several ODAC schools are members. Va Wes is the top seed in the men's soccer tournament and someone else in the conference has played before, I just forget who.

Roanoke and Bridgewater are not playing a final game. Sucks for the seniors.

I'm not knocking Denison, but it's not a bad matchup. Given W&L's start to the season, they should be thankful they made the tournament. Denison won't be an easy out, but it's definitely do-able. Honestly, I expected it to be a lot worse.

So I'm not making any predictions for this W&L team, but looking at the bracket, it could be a lot worse. Denison is a good team, had a good year, but not the worst opponent, especially with both teams on the road. Dickinson, as pod host, is certainly worthy and they ran JHU off the field in the conference final so they could be peaking, but W&L is familiar with them from last year. And W&L's defense is the team strength, against Dickinson's strength on offense. If W&L makes it to round 2, that's not the worst opponent either, though far from an easy one. Beating Dickinson would definitely be a significant upset.

Lynchburg's pod should be all chalk in the first round. Lynchburg should not struggle with Transy, and CNU should be fine against Berry, even though Berry won the SAA. Berry did tie Lynchburg in game 2, but 14 shots to 2, and none on target for Berry, tell a story. CNU is a tough opponent for Lynchburg if it comes to pass. They have some big scalps this year, including a Dickinson tie, a W&L tie, and wins over Trinity and Va Wes.

The Squids get Otterbein. If H-SC can punch in a few goals, they should be OK, but Emory, who should beat Maryville, something they've already done 7-1 earlier this season, will be a very tough out.

Overall, the three ODAC schools should have a solid chance of making the second round. W&L will need to score. H-SC will need to not fall behind. Lynchburg should just have to be Lynchburg.

Yeesh. That's an ugly end to a pair of ugly seasons. Those bottom 3 ODAC schools were putrid. I understand frustrations get bad at this point of a bad season, but it's not like either team has had any success recently. Guilford hasn't won more than 3 games in a season since 2017, and 2018 was the last time they won 2 ODAC contests in a year. Averett, in 4 years in the conference, has not won more than 2 ODAC contests, though they were 5-5 in 2023. But 2019 was the last time they were over .500, and that was in the USASAC.

I hope Roanoke and Bridgewater choose to play each other to fill in the gap. Roanoke went on the road and won 24-14 earlier this year. Wouldn't be a bad thing to replay that one and give both teams the final game they earned. Bridgewater isn't as bad as their record, couple of really close losses to Stephenson, Shenandoah and W&L, and the big win over H-SC shows the season wasn't a blowout, and Roanoke, as a new program, should be interested in playing another game for experience.

There's nothing new about the joint or follow-on degree. Lots of schools do a 3-3 J.D. with a separate law school. My daughter is starting to look around at those programs now that she's a h.s. sophomore. I wouldn't really have a problem with it. Honestly, to me it levels the playing field a bit with some of the research institutions that have benefited from grad students with a year of eligibility left. Allowing these athletes to stay competing at their "smaller" campus while finishing a joint or follow-on degree isn't a bad thing.

Quote from: SKUD on November 06, 2025, 04:01:40 PMBid stolen!

Man I hate this terminology. I now it's accepted, but nothing was stolen. Winning your conference is the only way to guarantee a bid. WPI didn't "steal" a bid from some team lower in the NPI, that team failed by not winning their AQ as WPI did. At-large's aren't stolen, they are second chances that teams should be grateful they are gifted. What wasn't earned, only bestowed, can't be stolen from you before it is given.

A strong jump for W&L in NPI. Sitting at 27. A tie with Lynchburg should be more than enough, a loss is probably still enough, especially since Lynchburg pushed up. A win could push the Generals into the low 20s. ODAC will likely have at least 3, Va. Wes is questionable.

Quote from: Another Mom on November 05, 2025, 09:50:48 PMWhat does this mean for the ncaa tournament? Can W&L breathe a little easier?

A little easier, yes. Breathe easy? No. The start to the season took any chance of breathing easy away.

They are probably safe, somewhere near the top of the last eight range. Winning the ODAC obviously ends any chance of missing out, but the win would move their NPI to a much more favorable seed. Losing the ODAC is going to make for much harder matchups if they get in.

Still, they have to move above Va Wes at this point in NPI, maybe one or two others.